A LIQUOR BILL.
STORMY ALL-NIGHT SITTING,
By telegraph, Press Aas'n, Copyright
Received 10.55 p.m,, Oct. 19. Sydnoy, Oct. 19. In the Assembly there was a stormy allnight sitting on the Liquor Bill, On the clause that no one employed in a bar shall be under the age of 16, a Government and temperanoo supporter moved to strike out age 16 with the view of inserting 18. Thiß was carried against the Government,
The Attorney-General declared that if the Bill were mutilated by the Government’s own supporters and the House in general, the Government would not take the responsibility, A heated disoussion ensued, intermingled with cries of “ Resign l ” The age was fixed at 17.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 2
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114A LIQUOR BILL. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 2
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